Unit 518
Unit 518
ASSESS THE INDIVIDUAL IN A HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTING
Understand assessment process 01.1
Compare and contrast the range and purpose of different forms of assessment.
The idea of professional or organizational assessment is an inherent feature of contemporary practice in care services. Professional or organizational assessment represents the entry of an intentionally rational and systematic approach to the encounter between a homes
Care manager, social worker, other professionals and people seeking help or services, who may be individuals, couples, families, groups or communities. The assessor’s role may be conceived as gate keeping, facilitating or empowering but, whichever is the case, the application of some form of assessment implies that a service does not operate entirely on-demand or that special expertise in defining problems or finding solutions exists or is needed. There is a further realm of assessment, namely user-led assessment that has emerged to modify aspects of the picture of assessment described.
(Crisp et al, 2003, p iv), is supported in a number of quarters, as this guide will show.
To summaries:
Government and agency policies and practices place great store in effective assessment the assessment process is significant for service users and carers in both conditioning their experience of the encounter with social care services and in shaping the service they receive,
Assessment is widely portrayed in literature as fundamental to the safe practice of social care with some accounts defining it as a key part of intervention and others regarding it as the essence of intervention.
In short, of all the skills that the homes care manager’s social workers and other professionals’ may aspire to, assessment seems the one most likely to achieve consensus among practitioners, managers, employers and service users as an essential skill.
Assessment is widely agreed to be of great importance, Crisp and colleagues stated that assessment
ASSESS THE INDIVIDUAL IN A HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SETTING
Understand assessment process 01.1
Compare and contrast the range and purpose of different forms of assessment.
The idea of professional or organizational assessment is an inherent feature of contemporary practice in care services. Professional or organizational assessment represents the entry of an intentionally rational and systematic approach to the encounter between a homes
Care manager, social worker, other professionals and people seeking help or services, who may be individuals, couples, families, groups or communities. The assessor’s role may be conceived as gate keeping, facilitating or empowering but, whichever is the case, the application of some form of assessment implies that a service does not operate entirely on-demand or that special expertise in defining problems or finding solutions exists or is needed. There is a further realm of assessment, namely user-led assessment that has emerged to modify aspects of the picture of assessment described.
(Crisp et al, 2003, p iv), is supported in a number of quarters, as this guide will show.
To summaries:
Government and agency policies and practices place great store in effective assessment the assessment process is significant for service users and carers in both conditioning their experience of the encounter with social care services and in shaping the service they receive,
Assessment is widely portrayed in literature as fundamental to the safe practice of social care with some accounts defining it as a key part of intervention and others regarding it as the essence of intervention.
In short, of all the skills that the homes care manager’s social workers and other professionals’ may aspire to, assessment seems the one most likely to achieve consensus among practitioners, managers, employers and service users as an essential skill.
Assessment is widely agreed to be of great importance, Crisp and colleagues stated that assessment
Bibliography: Smale et al. 1993 WHO 1946